Part Three

It was now Sunday and Jo was getting ready to go and meet Tyler for breakfast. She was hoping to be able to talk to Mac about what may have happened the night before, but she'd already heard him leave to meet the guys for basketball earlier on.

She sat back down on the bed and sighed. What was she doing? One minute they were having a nice chat over coffee and the next they were chasing each other around the apartment and nearly kissing! She couldn't help but feel awkward over the whole thing, but not because it would have been wrong, but because she couldn't shake the feeling that she wanted Mac to kiss her.

"Oh god!" Jo said throwing herself back on the bed.

"What am I doing?"

She slowly got back up again and grabbed her leather jacket and her bag making sure she had her keys, and then walked through the apartment. She was just about to leave when she spotted a note on the side in the kitchen. She walked over to it and picked it up, reading it aloud to herself.

Jo, hope you have a nice time with Tyler this morning,

i've been thinking about last night a lot and maybe when

you get back we can talk? I just don't want things to be

awkward between us.

Mac

Jo smiled once she'd finished, she didn't want things to be awkward between them either, although she still felt nervous at the prospect of talking to Mac about it, did he feel the same that she did? Or did he just want to cover the whole thing up and forget about it? She'd just have to wait until later.

Jo left the apartment and walked the short distance to the diner where she met Tyler for breakfast every Sunday. She waved at the owner as she walked in, and saw Tyler waiting at their regular table for her.

"Hey gorgeous boy!" Jo said kissing her son on the cheek.

"Hey Mom, you look nice!" Tyler sad handing her a menu as she sat own opposite him in the booth.

"Do I? Tyler I don't look any different." Jo said chuckling.

"Oh well it must be because you're just so happy to be with your favourite child!" Tyler said cheekily.

"Hey, poor Ellie, you love your sister!" Jo said smiling. She loved her daughter obviously, but she did love spending time with Tyler, just the two of them.

"Yeah well I don't love her when she steals all my food, will be nice to eat my breakfast without her fork appearing in my eye line heading for my plate!" Tyler said laughing.

"Agreed, so how's college, you working hard?" Jo asked her only son.

"Yeah it's great, really hard some days but I love it". Tyler answered. Tyler had been at NYU for nearly a year now studying Law.

"God I remember how hard college was, all those really hard books, it'll all be worth it in the end honey." Jo said smiling lovingly at her boy.

"Well I hope so…anyway enough about me, how is it living with the boss?" Tyler said changing the subject.

"It's fine, it was so sweet of him to offer, lord Tyler, you should see the mess the apartment is in, it's a nightmare!" Jo said sighing sadly.

"It won't take them long to fix it though will it?" Tyler asked, signalling for the waitress to come and take their order.

"I hope not, Ellie will just have to stay at Grandma's till it's done, although with her flu she won't be going back to school any time soon anyway." Jo said finally deciding on what she was going to have.

"Well at least you get on well with Mac, it's not like you'll be arguing all the time, and from what I've heard from Dad, Mac will enjoy having you around!" Tyler said.

"Woah, what do you mean? What has your Dad being saying now?" Jo asked getting irritated now, why was Russ always trying to cause trouble?

"He just said that Mac seemed very interested in you but don't worry Mom, I know what dad is like, I don't take what he says seriously." Tyler said reaching over and taking her hand.

"Ok…but seriously, he thinks Mac is interested in me?" Jo asked him.

"Yeah, and going by how squeaky your voice just went maybe he was right…do you like Mac Mom?" Tyler whispered cheekily.

"Hey! Mac and I are just friends; it would be very unprofessional of us to be together." Jo said getting more and more nervous as the conversation went on and this was only with Tyler, she still had to have the 'talk' with Mac later on!

"Well that's very business-like of you Mom, but you didn't really answer my question did you?" Tyler asked chuckling at how nervous his Mom was.

Jo didn't really know what to say, so she just stayed quiet.

"Look…I love you Mom and if you want to be with Mac or you are even contemplating being with him in any way I am all behind it. I like Mac, and from the way he reacted when Dad turned up with me at the lab that time, I'd say he likes you too." Tyler said smiling at his Mom.

"God you are the most amazing boy!" Jo said taking his hand again, holding it tight between hers.

"Well you're an amazing Mom, and you deserve to be happy." Tyler said, hoping he had put her mind at rest a bit.

"Thank you sweetie, but I don't really know what's happening between me and Mac at the moment, it's all a bit complicated." Jo said sighing.

"Well whatever it is, I'm sure you'll sort it out, do you want to order? I'm starving!" Tyler said saying what he wanted to the waitress who'd come over to their table.

A few hours later, Jo was back at Mac's apartment and was now relaxing on the couch flicking though the cable channels. Well trying to relax, she couldn't help but feel nervous at the prospect of Mac coming back and them having to talk about last night! The more she thought about the more irrational her thoughts were becoming, what if he even asked her to move out, and then where would she go? She shook herself then went to go and make herself a coffee. She walked to the kitchen but stopped in her tracks when she saw Mac's sneakers and bag on the floor by the door. How had she missed that? He was already back! That's when she heard the water in the shower running then being turned off. She had been so absorbed in her thoughts that she didn't see Mac was already back, and in the shower no less! She was just about to go and sit back down on the couch when she heard Mac exit the bathroom.

"Jo? Is that you?" Mac called from the hallway.

"Yeah it's me; sorry I didn't know you were back." Jo said sitting down on the couch and tucking her legs underneath her.

"That's ok… good breakfast? Mac asked as he entered the living room.

Jo turned around to answer him and was met by Mac standing in the door way dressed only in a towel around his waist, with his toned chest on show.

"Umm…yeah…it was great, Tyler says hi by the way." Jo said stuttering over her words. Man that guy looked good in hardly any clothes!

"Good, I'll just go and get dressed then we can talk yeah?" Mac said heading towards his bedroom, leaving Jo alone with her thoughts.

All Jo could do was sigh shakily and lay back on the couch.

"Wow!" she mouthed quietly.

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